Series 3 Cable Cards

[BlouZbee]

I am looking into upgrading to a Series 3. I called my cable company to find out about obtaining the cable cards. They told me that I would have to buy them and they would cost $125 each, does this sound typical? Can you buy cable cards anywhere else? I would have to install them myself and contact them with the numbers.

[Maeglin]

Isn't very often that they ask customers to buy them, but on this forum it's not unheard of. I highly doubt you're goint to find them anywhere outside of your cable provider, though... last I heard, they haven't gotten to the point of cable modems where you can just buy them at a store and call in to activate them (which is probably because the option/requirement to buy the cards is so rare... even if they could get them, what store would keep them in stock?).

[jfh3]

It's not unheard of, but it's certainly not typical. The vast majority of cable companies rent cables cards for $1.50 - $5.00 per month.

$125 for purchase seems a tad high, but borderline reasonable.

[dt_dc]

Also see this thread:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=326280

Where a community member reported that CableCards were only available from their cable provider via purchase ... for $125 each ...

[ashu]

People should REALLY include location info - so tech-savvy people know which neighborhood to avoid moving to ;)

I have nothing further to add, the others covered it all and provided the link to the other discussion already.